October is Halloween month, of course, and I recommend any of the horror films -- if one likes cerebral horror films --of Terence Fisher (The Devil Rides Out, 1968, on Oct. 10 is one of my favorites) and Val Lewton (Cat People, 1942, on Oct.31, is a favorite of mine). e-mail me if you have questions. Other recommendations.
Oct. 2: Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings (1939); a great civilian airplane film.
Oct. 3: Raoul Walsh's Strawberry Blonde (1941), a funny and moving valentine to the era of Walsh's childhood. And, yes, Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.
Oct. 5: Hitchcock's marvelous comic thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Oct. 6: Leo McCarey's touching film about growing old before there was Social Security, Make Way for Tomorrow (1937); John Ford's poetic Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Raoul Walsh's grimly beautiful war film Objective Burma (1945); Robert Wise's film noir Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), filmed partly in Hudson, N.Y.
Oct. 8: Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday (1940)
Oct. 13: Hawks's Rio Bravo (1959)
Oct. 14: Chaplin's City Lights (1931)
Oct. 18: John Ford's Stagecoach (1939)
Oct. 22: Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Oct 27: Anthony Mann's corrosive Western The Naked Spur (1953).
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